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Ancien Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis De Tocqueville
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The Ancien Regime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is an objective observer of both periods - providing a merciless critique of the ancien regime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledging t ...Show more
Democracy In America and Two Essays on America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months a ...Show more
Democracy in America by Professor Alexis de Tocqueville
Category: History | Series: Signet Classics
Over 175 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French nobleman and an astute political scientist, came to the United States to evaluate the meaning and actual functioning of democracy. His brilliant discussion of majority rule is still vitally relevant today.
Democracy in America by ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe. De Tocquevill ...Show more
Democracy in America by De Tocqueville Alexis
Category: HISTORY | Series: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries Ser.
In 1831, the then twenty-seven year old Alexis de Tocqueville, was sent with Gustave de Beaumont to America by the French Government to study and make a report on the American prison system. Over a period of nine months the two traveled all over America making notes not only on the prison systems but on ...Show more
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Category: History | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
In 1831, a young French aristocrat named Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States officially to appraise the country's penal system--but with a higher personal goal in mind. Looking to America's unique democratic system as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, Tocqueville set about to s ...Show more
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